Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""

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ATTN: slashdot "editors"

[0xdeadbeef]

Why are we listening to a guy named "Osabanjo"? That sounds like the kind of name a terrorist would have. A bluegrass-playing, cousin-marrying terrorist.

Problem with your mod points

[Anonymous Coward]

There may be a problem with your mod points. Pls test them by modding this comment insightful.

Re:Users != Developers

[FreeUser]

Or are you saying that Miss take-a-self-portrait-at-arms-length-on-her-cell-phone is a developer because she knows how to post a picture as her background?

That sounds very much like a Redmond definition of developer to me.

Uhm, Troll?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not new here, but +5 Funny for this Troll still seems like a new intellectual low for /. moderation.